Enterprise Applied AI Leader

About the Role

Mercor's Enterprise AI organization builds the infrastructure enterprises need to deploy continuously improving production AI systems. This full-time leadership role sits within Applied AI (the Forward Deployed Engineering team of our Enterprise AI organization) and operates separately from Mercor's expert network. We're hiring Applied AI Leads to build and scale the technical delivery team responsible for deploying Mercor's Enterprise AI platform for enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with customers to align technical requirements with business objectives, acting as the critical bridge between engineering and Sales, GTM, and delivery
• Co-lead a Technical team with an Operations counterpart to deliver scalable, production-ready AI systems for enterprise customers
• Translate ambiguous workflows into scalable AI-powered solutions, integrating across enterprise systems, APIs, internal tools, and data sources
• Guide the deployment of AI workflows, agent orchestration, evaluation systems, and continual learning feedback loops
• Hire, mentor, and develop exceptional engineers while establishing rigorous engineering and technical delivery practices as the organization scales
• Work closely with Sales/GTM, Product, Research, and Platform Engineering to bring new AI capabilities into production

Requirements

• 5+ years building production software systems, with strong software engineering fundamentals in Python, Go, Java, Rust, or similar languages
• 2+ years directly managing technical teams
• Proven track record leading customer-facing technical delivery for enterprise software, AI products, or developer platforms
• Deep experience designing distributed systems and cloud-native applications
• Highly comfortable communicating complex technical concepts to both engineers and executive-level customer stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, coach others, make decisive technical calls, and maintain high execution velocity in unstructured environments

Nice to Haves

• AI agents or agent orchestration
• LLM applications
• Evaluation systems or benchmarking
• Enterprise integrations
• Workflow automation
• Production ML systems

Who Thrives Here

You enjoy solving ambiguous technical problems with customers, building high-performing teams, and shipping production systems that create measurable business value. You are a technical delivery leader first, and an individual contributor second. Your instinct is to remove blockers, build deep trust with enterprise stakeholders, and partner closely with sales to ensure mutual success.

Why Join Mercor

Build production AI systems deployed for some of the world's largest enterprises, help define how organizations adopt agentic AI at scale, and lead a high-impact, forward-deployed engineering organization from its earliest stages. Work alongside elite engineers, researchers, and operators at the forefront of enterprise.

Benefits

• Participation in the Enterprise revenue sharing pool
• Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
• Up to $15k Relocation bonus
• $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
• $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
• Free Equinox membership
• $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
• $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance

Pay

Compensation Range: $300K - $520K